Is 24 the
new 50? A new study suggests that cognitive decline begins earlier than
we think. The study of more than 3,300 volunteers tracked the
relationship between age and the speed at which people make decisions
and shift between tasks

Is
24 the new 50? If you’re going by when our intellectual skills start to
decline and dull due to the passage of time, then it might be.

According to researchers at Simon Fraser University in Canada, things
start going south at age 24. They came to that conclusion after
studying 3,305 volunteers aged 16 years to 44 years. The participants
played a real-time game that approximated everyday real-world situations
that test our cognitive abilities, from concentration to juggling
multiple tasks to shifting our focus from immediate to long-term issues.
The game recorded the players’ moves, and researchers analyzed hours of
data from it. As expected, the speed with which the volunteers made
decisions, and shifted between tasks, declined with age.

Many studies have documented the gradual deterioration of cognitive skills over time. But in this study, published in the journal PLOS One,
the drop, albeit small, was detected first among 24 year olds. In fact,
for every 15 years after age 24, cognitive speed dropped by about 15%.
And the results could not be explained by the fact that the players were
getting better at navigating the game over time; the age-related
decline remained, even among those with more skill playing the game.

This
doesn’t mean it’s all downhill after your mid 20s. As cognitive speed
slows, the brain makes up for some of the deficit in a variety of ways:
by relying on experience to anticipate and more accurately predict
upcoming tasks, as well as by employing mental shortcuts such as
eliminating extraneous information and paring down incoming information
to just core nuggets of relevant material. So while we may get slower,
we might also be getting smarter. Feel better now?

i think its kind of a silly question and premise because wouldnt this have always been true? it would be different if there was this massive change in past few years or decades with data they could compare it to and they reached some startling conclusion but nah there basically saying things are how theyve always been we just didnt know about...youre fine.

my memory been deteriorating years ago, and I'm 21, so this news does not surprise or scare me. I'll literally be searching the whole house tryna find my keys when the keys were in my hand. the.whole.fuccin.time. What that article should've done was provided advice as to what to do to help slow down cognitive decline because i need that

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